Transsilvania

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Trānssilvānia.

Noun

Transsilvania

  1. Alternative spelling of Transylvania
    • 1877, Edward A. Freeman, The Ottoman Power in Europe, page 128:
      […] John Zapolya, Prince of Transsilvania, […]
    • 1880, Fraser's Magazine, page 37:
      It certainly is not clear that the people of Bukovina and Transsilvania lost anything when Milan and Venice were restored to Italy.
    • 1885, Prose Masterpieces from Modern Essayists, page 131:
      The Roumans of Wallachia, Moldavia, and Transsilvania, are isolated from the scattered Rouman remnant on Pindos and elsewhere.

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From trans- (“across”) +‎ silvānus (“forest”, relational adjective) +‎ -ia (abstract noun suffix), a calque of Old Hungarian Erdeuelu, from erdő (“forest”) + elv/elü (“region beyond”), modern Hungarian Erdély.

    Pronunciation

    Proper noun

    Trānssilvānia f sg (genitive Trānssilvāniae); first declension

    1. (Medieval Latin, New Latin) Transylvania (a historical region in western Romania)
      Synonyms: Ultra Silvam, Septemcastra, Erdēlia

    Declension

    First-declension noun, singular only.

    singular
    nominative Trānssilvānia
    genitive Trānssilvāniae
    dative Trānssilvāniae
    accusative Trānssilvāniam
    ablative Trānssilvāniā
    vocative Trānssilvānia

    Descendants

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